Transfiguring the arts and sciences : knowledge and cultural institutions in the Romantic age / Jon Klancher, under contract to Cambridge University Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klancher, Jon P., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 100.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of--England--History--19th century.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

Science and the humanities--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Science and the humanities.

Associations, institutions, etc--England--History.

Associations, institutions, etc.

Books and reading--England--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

London (England)--Intellectual life--19th century.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Transfiguring the Arts & Sciences

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this important and innovative study Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of poets, lecturers, moral philosophers, scientists and literary critics - including Coleridge, Godwin, Bentham, Davy, Wordsworth, Robinson, Shelley and Hunt - and traces their response to book collectors and bibliographers, art-and-science administrators, painters, engravers, natural philosophers, radical journalists, editors and reviewers. Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early-modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modes of organizing 'knowledges'. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.

Contents:

From the age of projects to the age of institutions

The administrator as cultural producer: restructuring the arts and sciences

Wild bibliography: the rise and fall of book history in the nineteenth century

Print and institution in the making of art controversy

History and organization in the romantic-age sciences

The Coleridge institution

Dissenting from the "arts and sciences"

Epilogue: transatlantic crossings.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89125-1

1-107-46120-0

1-316-60096-3

1-107-45915-X

1-107-46495-1

1-107-47207-5

1-107-46845-0

1-139-24593-7

1-107-47308-X

OCLC:

862614624